Re: [gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,

2005-09-06 Thread fire-eyes
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine. Including /var/run? Some programs drop root privileges before starting, so you need the chmod 1777 /var/run. Thanks for the reply. /var/run is 1777 (it was before), yet it

[gentoo-user] Mailman archives are not written anymore - why??

2007-03-07 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
~2.1.9 Installed: 2.1.9_rc1(11:54:59 12/07/06)(apache2 -courier -exim postfix -qmail -sendmail -xmail) Homepage:http://www.list.org/ Description: A python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface # equery uses mailman [ Searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman archives are not written anymore - why??

2007-03-08 Thread Alexis Lahouze
Installed: 2.1.9_rc1(11:54:59 12/07/06)(apache2 -courier -exim postfix -qmail -sendmail -xmail) Homepage:http://www.list.org/ Description: A python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface # equery uses mailman [ Searching

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - A couple of questions about setting up exim

2007-05-10 Thread darren kirby
? From exim.conf: # They are all colon-separated lists So you want: hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 70.234.122.251 : 70.234.122.248 I don't think you have to put 70.234.122.250 in here if it is the same machine as 127.0.0.1. At least I don't in my working configuration. Also, exim needs

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
. It emerged. Now, how do I plug it into sendmail? I'm using Exim and I only have no other machine at home where I could try another MTA. As I did with Exim, it should suffice when you take the Procmail plug of Sendmail and just s/procmail/cropmail/g it. A successful configuration example

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim

2007-05-12 Thread Dirk GROSSE OSTERHUES
Hej, On 11/5/07 19:02, Michael Sullivan wrote: What do I need to do to set up mailman to work with exim? [...] as you didn't post the relevant parts of your exim.conf I guess that you didn't read the notes in the compile process of mailman. There you'd have had the possibility to copy paste

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim [SOLVED]

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:21 +0200, Dirk GROSSE OSTERHUES wrote: Hej, On 11/5/07 19:02, Michael Sullivan wrote: What do I need to do to set up mailman to work with exim? [...] as you didn't post the relevant parts of your exim.conf I guess that you didn't read the notes in the compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
, and finding the 1,000 mails some idiot with a Windows bot just sent, and deleting them, is really hard. I'm redesigning our mail setup at work,a nd I'm going to do it with exim *and* Postfix. Exim is the front end I can see, work with, and manage. Exim sends on to Postfix as fast as it can

[gentoo-user] What MTA to use to receiving mail for local users?

2014-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
case). postfix? exim? It's been a long time since I've used either postfix or exim, but I don't remember either of them being too complex to configure. I'm guessing that Portgage is going to object to installing both msmtp and postfix/exim, so I'll probably have to build the rx-only MTA from

Re: [gentoo-user] What MTA to use to receiving mail for local users?

2014-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
? (No... just no.) qmail? (Seems a bit overly complex for my use case). postfix? exim? It's been a long time since I've used either postfix or exim, but I don't remember either of them being too complex to configure. I'm guessing that Portgage is going to object to installing both msmtp and postfix

Re: [gentoo-user] What MTA to use to receiving mail for local users?

2014-04-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
/simplest MTA to set up for that? sendmail? (No... just no.) qmail? (Seems a bit overly complex for my use case). postfix? exim? It's been a long time since I've used either postfix or exim, but I don't remember either of them being too complex to configure. I'm guessing that Portgage

Re: [gentoo-user] What MTA to use to receiving mail for local users?

2014-04-10 Thread Carlos Sura
acting as an SMTP server and delivering mail locally to mbox or maildir destinations. What's the easiest/simplest MTA to set up for that? sendmail? (No... just no.) qmail? (Seems a bit overly complex for my use case). postfix? exim? It's been a long time since I've used

[gentoo-user] fail2ban: You have to create an init script for each container ...

2015-01-08 Thread lee
' configuration is at the default location: , | heimdali init.d # ls -la /etc/lxc/acheron/config | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 967 5. Jan 01:14 /etc/lxc/acheron/config | heimdali init.d # ` What am I missing? Shorewall is used on the host, exim is running in the container, and I want fail2ban

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate: name of log file after it's rotated?

2016-04-01 Thread lee
ying to do: >> >> >> , [ cat /etc/logrotate.d/exim } >> | /var/log/exim/exim*.log { >> | daily >> | missingok >> | rotate 800 >> | compress >> | delaycompress >> | notifempt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/01/2018 21:43, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you >>> need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for >>> you? It certainly has all

RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Daevid Vincent
} \ --with-mail-gid=${MAILGID} \ --with-cgi-gid=${APACHEGID} \ || die configure failed make || die make failed } # ll /etc/exim/exim.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29452 Apr 29 13:54 /etc/exim/exim.conf # User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
. something that can deliver mail locally and receive inbound mail using SMTP), then postfix or exim would probably the be the next step up: I would add Sendmail to the front of that list. But I might be biased. I've read claims that there are things you can do with sendmail that Exim or Postfix can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Migrating servers to a new box

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
~ # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.69 USE=X exiscan-acl ldap mysql pam perl sasl ssl syslog tcpd -dnsdb -domainkeys -dovecot-sasl -exiscan -gnutls -ipv6 -lmtp -mailwrapper -mbox -mbx

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman archives are not written anymore - why??

2007-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
of december I migrated my mailing lists to a new PC. The My installation data: #eix mailman [I] net-mail/mailman Available versions: 2.1.9_rc1 ~2.1.9 Installed: 2.1.9_rc1(11:54:59 12/07/06)(apache2 -courier -exim postfix -qmail -sendmail -xmail) Homepage:http

Re: [gentoo-user] Need advice in selecting a mail server

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 06 July 2009 23:01:13 Michael Sullivan wrote: I have three boxes (baby, camille, and catherine) in my LAN, and for some reason (this was years ago) I set up an exim server on each of them. camille and catherine were supposed to forward their mail to baby, which has a working dovecot

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
at work,a nd I'm going to do it with exim *and* Postfix. Exim is the front end I can see, work with, and manage. Exim sends on to Postfix as fast as it can, and Postfix transparently relays to recipient. I get best of both worlds :-) Now let's contrast Postfix with sendmail. No, wait, let's

Re: [gentoo-user] fail2ban: You have to create an init script for each container ...

2015-01-11 Thread lee
# ` What am I missing? Shorewall is used on the host, exim is running in the container, and I want fail2ban (on the host) to look into the logfile of the exim which runs in the container: , | heimdali fail2ban # cat paths-overrides.local | exim_main_log = /etc/lxc/acheron/rootfs/var/log

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
e corresponding sin on my Debian server: I want to run the latest version of my pet MTA, exim, and with the features I choose, so hand compiling is the only way. And this week it backfired on me too: I carelessly installed some package that depended on a MTA - and boom, /usr/sbin/sendmail, whic

[gentoo-user] Sympa

2007-07-25 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
with such requirements: - integration with Exim. - LDAP support. It must allow keep user list in LDAP. - Available for Gentoo. I need MLM to: 1. Process bounces. If a customer sends message to support@, don't send bounce if one of mailboxes from support@ list (alias) is not available. 2. Limit users who can

[gentoo-user] OT - Still having problems with logmail

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've unmerged ssmtp and remerged exim in its place. This used to work, but now it's giving me the following error: camille michael # glsa-check -m 200610-14 Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/glsa-check, line 316, in ? portage_mail.send_mail(glsaconfig, mymessage) File /usr

[gentoo-user] Re: local mail processing

2009-03-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
]: Cannot open mailhub.adj.org:25 What am I missing ? All localy emitted mail end up in ~/dead.letter... Thx, You emerged it but did not configure it. Anyway, for an easy to set-up local mail system, I'd recommend Exim. PS: You don't need ssmtp for local mail. You can safely unmerge it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: dovecot doesn't seem to have a log. How do I turn on logging for dovecot? I'd suspect it's either logging to /var/log/mail* or /var/log/messages Have you checked both? I forgot: camille log # netstat -ptln Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird [SOLVED]

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 18:45 -0700, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: Are you port forwarding port 143 through your NAT if you're using NAT? Are you allowing imap in your firewall rules? I'd also try the suggesting of changing to listen = * suggested here.

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-13 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Ok, then perhaps you could explain why a mail server (running exim4) suddenly stops to relay emails (this worked before) and then all of a sudden

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - most of us are just saying what

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

2005-09-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Mark wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in a DMZ to protect the internal network

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

2005-09-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 September 2005 19:05, Mark wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in a DMZ to protect the internal

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems

2005-10-10 Thread Nick Rout
though that there is a small error that slightly changes the sense. see below: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Nick Rout wrote: You are confused. postfix, exim and qmail are MTA's - they speak smtp. They do not store mail, they pass it to another smtp server of an LDA Should be pass

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:09:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I found check_linkage.rb, but it's not installed (or linked) to any of the standard $PATH directories.  Instead, it's in a demo directory.  Is it fully functional? Yes. You run it with ruby. It does still lack a couple of features

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 04:20 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses with --package-names because of the lack of support for the =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still supports.. :) Hey, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 05:09 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: The equal sign was a mistake. I've actually been meaning to poke you about that. At the same time you should drop the --emptytree parsing and just use --deep directly. With the circular deps in the tree now that gets much better

[gentoo-user] dns at startup

2006-04-15 Thread David Corbin
'network related' scripts (exim, mysql, lisa), so I don't *think* it's 'running too early'. When I look through the init.d scripts, there are a handful that 'use dns', but no one seems to provide it. I'm not sure this is the cause, but I'd like to understand why no one provides it. More

RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Daevid Vincent
R ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 +X -dnsdb -exiscan -exiscan-acl +ipv6 -ldap -lmtp -mailwrapper -mbox +mysql -nis +pam +perl -postgres -sasl +ssl -syslog +tcpd 1,401 kB But I don't believe that's changed since: daevid portage-logs # ll *exim* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23369 Jul 7 00:57 3190-exim-4.50

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mail question

2006-06-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
to send it? I haven't used sendmail in ages (about 10 years). I don't remember how to do it cleanly. Why don't you move to a modern MTA like exim, postfix, qmail or such? Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Crute
suggest postfix or exim. I personally use Postfix always. It's featureful and easy enough to configure. I would beg to differ with the statement about security. Qmail is arguably THE MOST secure mail server (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html). That said, I use postfix and love it. -Mike

[gentoo-user] Re: Not getting cron emais that should go to root user

2009-07-27 Thread walt
failed user root parsing pr 2002; Thilo Bangertbang...@gentoo.org I don't know why it's trying to use sendmail; I use exim... My setup is very basic compared to yours, but on this machine I have /usr/lib/sendmail - /usr/sbin/ssmtp Is your sendmail a symlink also?

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat

2015-01-31 Thread shawn wilson
this obsession with ssh or telnet. Remote code execution means that malicious party can execute any code on affected system. To elaborate, since exim is an SMTP server it will be listening on TCP/25. All the attacker needs to do is run an SMTP command that will prompt exim to perform a lookup

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES

2015-12-29 Thread lee
esome as ever set rules > manuell. After reading a good iptables tutorial, you may want to take a look at shorewall and it's documentation. If you're referring to IP addresses from which you receive emails that are spam, I'd recommend getting familiar with exim and perhaps spamassassin. For

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
smtp). Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for you? It certainly has all the functionality. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Grant Taylor
fine for non-encrypted SMTP connections. The problem is with encrypted SMTP connections. Further the problem is in the SMTP side, not the actual mailer / transport side. Sendmail / exim / postfix / etc should all be able to provide the unencrypted and encrypted SMTP side with very little

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 3:48 PM, Jarry wrote: > Rent VPS and be your own admin. But running properly configured > mail-server is not so easy. Setting up postfix/exim/sendmail > is just a beginning. If you mean it seriously and do not want > you

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Migrating servers to a new box

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
in order to make sure that all my users can log onto their accounts on this alternate box; is it just /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, or is there more? I forgot to add in my previous post that I'm using camille ~ # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order

[gentoo-user] sanity check: fetchmail exim courier-*

2008-06-11 Thread Michael Higgins
of these emails after the fact, I could open with nail and forward. ('mail' seems to work if I reset $MAIL var as above...) Next, I thought to make these available via IMAP, so set up exim and courier. I can't get IMAP to work, not sure why (perhaps Q#1 above is related? Duh...). But at this point I

Re: [gentoo-user] php uncompatible with nis USE flag?

2006-02-07 Thread Michael George
-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8-r1 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5-r1 (0) [-P-] [M-] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0 (4) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 (0) [-P

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:45 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 14:12 -0700, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: My MSOutlook 2007 and my Mozilla Thunderbird email clients on my laptop cannot connect to my exim mail server. I can't seem to figure out why

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems

2005-10-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
why I gave up using opera! What you can do is setting up a mail server, (postfix, exim, qmail) as an imap server on your machine. Fetchmail keeps its business as before, now feeding your mail server; you can point opera to your server. Procmail would not be used in this case, but you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems

2005-10-10 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Bornier wrote: OK, sorry, I remember now why I gave up using opera! What you can do is setting up a mail server, (postfix, exim, qmail) as an imap server on your machine. You are confused. postfix, exim and qmail are MTA's - they speak smtp. They do not store mail, they pass it to another smtp

Re: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:52:35 -0700 Daevid Vincent wrote: BTW, someone on the mailman list said, Yes, it has the flags, but what is the value of the ${MAILGID} parameter? The error message you received says it's 'mailman' and should be 'mail'. My system runs postfix, not exim

Re: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
several times. But around Sept 7th is when it stopped working. I have mail from the list on 9/5 for sure. I'm fairly certain that exim is not to blame here, as that hasn't changed in over two months. Didn't you say in one of the original posts that you had tried to re-install mailman? That would

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
t03d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps > (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) > (envelope-from <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>) > id 1eImhw-IJ-SK > for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 02:30:12 + > > Message #2: > > Received: from [82.69.80.10

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-11-26 11:00, Ralph Seichter wrote: > Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) > by smarthost03d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps > (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) > (Exim 4.80) > (envelope-from <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>) > id 1eImhw-00

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/01/2018 21:43, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>>> Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you >>>> need 2 pi

Re: Re[4]: [gentoo-user] OT - Exim question

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 22:29 +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hi Michael, Thursday, March 13, 2008, 10:15:33 PM, you wrote: It didn't work: Mar 13 15:13:31 baby exim[26470]: 2008-03-13 15:13:31 unqualified recipient rejected: amy H=([192.168.0.2]) [192.168.1.100] (failed to find host

[gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
My MSOutlook 2007 and my Mozilla Thunderbird email clients on my laptop cannot connect to my exim mail server. I can't seem to figure out why. camille ~ # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread kashani
queues. Border controls are hard, and finding the 1,000 mails some idiot with a Windows bot just sent, and deleting them, is really hard. I'm redesigning our mail setup at work,a nd I'm going to do it with exim *and* Postfix. Exim is the front end I can see, work with, and manage. Exim sends

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Mick
. But, and this makes me sad, it doesn't really want *me* to manage it's queues. Border controls are hard, and finding the 1,000 mails some idiot with a Windows bot just sent, and deleting them, is really hard. I'm redesigning our mail setup at work,a nd I'm going to do it with exim *and* Postfix. Exim

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
. I'm redesigning our mail setup at work,a nd I'm going to do it with exim *and* Postfix. Exim is the front end I can see, work with, and manage. Exim sends on to Postfix as fast as it can, and Postfix transparently relays to recipient. I get best of both worlds :-) I can't say

Re[6]: [gentoo-user] OT - Exim question

2008-03-14 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Michael, See comments below. Here's the config. I think I have my sed command correct to remove the commented lines from the listing: baby ~ # cat /etc/exim/exim.conf | sed /#/d domainlist local_domains = @ : espersunited.com : ^^^ - Did you really spit

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: The problem is with dovecot. (port 110 is the IMAP port, isn't it? I can't telnet to it.) camille log # emerge -pv dovecot These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-mail/dovecot-1.1.1-r1 USE=doc

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:49 -0700, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: dovecot doesn't seem to have a log. How do I turn on logging for dovecot? I'd suspect it's either logging to /var/log/mail* or /var/log/messages Have you checked both? I forgot: camille log # netstat -ptln

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Slow sendmail

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
lookup. (Google for IDENT and you will see what it is). Don't know much about sendmail (apart from it being horrible to configure - much better to go with postfix, exim or qmail IMHO). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

2005-09-29 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:05, Mark wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in a DMZ to protect

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems

2005-10-10 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
can do much of that I'ld like | to keep this process. OK, sorry, I remember now why I gave up using opera! What you can do is setting up a mail server, (postfix, exim, qmail) as an imap server on your machine. Fetchmail keeps its business as before, now feeding your mail server; you can point

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread John Jolet
looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. most mtas (postfix, sendmail, and exim for sure) have multiple ways of being called. One of which is a send your queue and die mode. pick an mta and read the docs. Any ideas? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto for Sendmail configuration?

2007-04-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
I am looking for is a simplified howto describing how I could set up sendmail to deliver mail for me... Uhm, if you don't know sendmail, then why start with sendmail in the first place? There are quite some easier MTAs out there. I personally like Postfix best, but Exim seems to be popular as well

Re: [gentoo-user] Email to Hotmail not working

2007-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
to an email I sent from my hotmail. Does anyone have any ideas? Look, Dave, almost all people on this list and virtually anywhere in planet Internet have dumped sendmail years ago and moved to some modern MTA like exim or postfix or some such. It is highly unlikely you get a spot-on answer here

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to configure an email server

2007-05-13 Thread Sean Johnson
has changed recently under Gentoo, so you would emerge netqmail instead of qmail. There are many different mta softwares out there. I would suggest trying a few of them, and see which one seems to fit your thought process the best. For me it's qmail, but you might be more of an exim or postfix

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:39:01 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for your environment: binary packages (both building and using) True. And it misses pkgmoves and slotmoves (profiles/updates/*). and a revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 07:20:45 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:39:01 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for your environment: a revdep-rebuild equivalent (although this can be hacked around) With the

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:57:53 Paul Varner wrote: But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses with --package-names because of the lack of support for the =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still supports.. :) Hey, I'm proud of

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-08 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 08 December 2006 00:43, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/7/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have exim installed, but I'm guessing it depends on logger, It does. which can be provided by either sysklogd or syslog-ng. Probably: 1. You had sysklogd installed at one point

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
servers in August 2007 detected as running Sendmail in a study performed by E-Soft, Inc.[2] Sendmail is trailed by Microsoft Exchange Server, Exim, and Postfix; these four being the only mail servers with more than 10% of the total. [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host

2016-08-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Monday, August 08, 2016 06:55:40 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 08/08/2016 12:29, Konstantin wrote: > > Hello Guys > > > > I need to install postfix and exim at the same Gentoo server. > > Why? > > You either have them running on different ports (mighty unusua

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
o you really need lmtp for that, though? As far as I remember simply piping the messages to the /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver program, as the deilivery mechanism, will ensure the same thing. I don't know postfix much though, so maybe that's hard to do with postfix, unlike my pet exim. Also, even if yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-27 Thread Ralph Seichter
tfix, unlike my pet exim. It's easy, see mailbox_command et al. One could even configure different commands for each recipient, but I think LMTP beats launching an external process per delivery. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
deilivery mechanism, will ensure the same thing. I don't know postfix > > much though, so maybe that's hard to do with postfix, > > unlike my pet exim. > > In that case, why bother with Postfix at all. Can't fetchmail send mails > directly to an MDA? I use getmail and it doesn't n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

2017-11-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
ard to do with postfix, > unlike my pet exim. In that case, why bother with Postfix at all. Can't fetchmail send mails directly to an MDA? I use getmail and it doesn't need Postfix at all. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 013: Unexpected error - Huh ? pgp2kvYSXgF9S.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
on the same server the mail is generated on, the MTA can use a local transport mechanism to store mail instead of passing it on via SMTP. I suggest you clarify your goal, and ask on the Postfix mailing list (or Exim, etc.) for more information. -Ralph

[gentoo-user] Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
to handle a few messages per week, and doesn't need to handle more than one connection at a time. exim? postfix? emailrelay? What I can't figure out for the above is how you configure them to send the mail using a command line MTA like /usr/bin/sendmail or /usr/bin/msmtp instead

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
passing them to a command-line MTA (e.g. /usr/bin/sendmail >> replacement provided by msmtp). > > Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you need > 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for you? > It certainly has all the functionality.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Grant Taylor
sendmail/postfix/exim. It looks like they'll all do what I want (modulo the no-queue desire). I think that it's extremely likely that you can configure the MTAs to not queue messages. - Inquire in MTA specific support groups. (I expect that someone else would have chimed in to this thread

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
normal e-mail. > > I would expect that you can use any of those in place of msmtp to send > email too. That would require seperate outbound transports that are selected based on how the mail was read: smtp vs. /usr/bin/sendmail (the real one). I get the impression from exim and post

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: webmail choices, ARGH!

2018-07-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-07-17 16:04, R0b0t1 wrote: > Do you have any problems with roundcube? Yes: ahiker!90 exim$ apt-cache show roundcube-core | grep '^Depends' Depends: dbconfig-common, debconf, libapache2-mod-php | php, libmagic1, php-pear (>= 1:1.10.1), php-cli, php-intl, php-json, php-mcrypt, rou

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with procmail newer than procmail-3.22-r10

2019-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
/procmailrc, for example: DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/ WARN: postinst FEATURES=sfperms removes the read-bit for others from /usr/bin/procmail /usr/bin/lockfile If you use procmail from an MTA like Exim, you need to re-add the read-bit or avoid the MTA checking the binary exists. -- Nei

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-07 Thread Stefan Schmiedl
"Michael Orlitzky" , 07.04.2020, 20:34: > Blaming lists.gentoo.org (or any other MTA) for not retrying after a 4xx > without evidence is seeing hoof prints and thinking zebras. Ockham's > razor: you fucked up. I'm watching my exim logs right now and can confirm that the

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-17 Thread Jarry
on how to maximally satisfy these requirements? Rent VPS and be your own admin. But running properly configured mail-server is not so easy. Setting up postfix/exim/sendmail is just a beginning. If you mean it seriously and do not want your IP to land on blacklists (and you vps suspended), there is much

Re: [gentoo-user] sendmail configuration

2020-11-25 Thread thelma
postmaster postmaster: root # General redirections for pseudo accounts. adm:root bin:root daemon: root exim: root lp: root mail: root named: root nobody: root postfix:roo

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-25 Thread Wols Lists
. You've explicitly pulled in a boot manager package. You can't expect portage to keep a bunch of implicit package managers (systemd, sysV, openrc etc) lying around when you haven't asked for them. I've installed postfix as my mailer - I don't want exim, sendmail, etc etc lying around "just in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with exim and mail destinations

2008-10-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
the appropriate DNS records on all machines, so how can I fix this? Is it possible to set camille's exim to forward all mail it receives to the equivalent accounts on baby? This bothers me: camille log # dig camille.espersunited.com MX ; DiG 9.4.2-P2 camille.espersunited.com MX ;; global options

[gentoo-user] perl-cleaner broke or user error?

2006-06-02 Thread Jeremy Olexa
/exim-4.60-r1 media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.5.5 net-im/gaim-1.5.0 net-irc/irssi-0.8.10 net-nds/openldap-2.2.28-r3 perl-core/Test-Simple-0.62 snip Fri Jun 2 22:55:16 CDT 2006 : There are no unmasked ebuilds to satisfy app-editors/vim. Skipping dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05 is not the latest available. Use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Grant Taylor
feel like "currently have (broken, as you say)" is inaccurate. Use ssmtp, unless the mail isn't coming from localhost and you need simple (use postfix); otherwise if your setup is tricky use exim. I don't think there is enough information to know that ssmtp / postfix / exim / sendma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?

2018-01-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
read, I am wondering why you >>>>> need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for >>>>> you? It certainly has all the functionality. >>>> >>>> I don't see how you can say that when you don't know the method that >>>>

[gentoo-user] OT - Can't send mail from non-root accoutns

2007-07-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
-2.61-r2 USE=ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum 53 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 53 kB baby is running exim: baby ~ # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.67 USE=exiscan

[gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I tried to send a comic strip as an attachment to my wife and I got a Mailbox Unavailable error. I'm running: baby log # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.68 USE=exiscan exiscan-acl ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Shields
On Jan 6, 2008 7:42 AM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to send a comic strip as an attachment to my wife and I got a Mailbox Unavailable error. I'm running: baby log # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies

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